{"id":4995,"date":"2020-06-04T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2019-07-07T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T16:15:57","slug":"sm-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/06\/04\/sm-53\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 53"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe best thing that\u2019s happened to this guy in the TWO MONTHS he\u2019s been a character!\u201d What an achievement. Behold the glory of Eddie Brock\u2019s mullet! Peter had a shaggy head of hair for awhile, but Eddie has fully embraced the hockey hair in a big way! Let\u2019s see how this goes. We begin with Ben continuing to take any opportunity to think he\u2019s not a real person and deserves to die, because 90s.
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Really bad type treatment on that title. GATHERING a bunch of other text oh, this is here STORMS. As Ben and Venom take turns recapping how we got here over two more splash pages in a row (!!!), Venom says Ben was trying to save Scream from dying by his\/their hands. And he previously said he wanted to kill all symbiotes. But when he attacked her last issue, he made some crack about putting her in a padded cell. Now it\u2019s kill time again. Pick a goal, Venom! Ben decides he can\u2019t die because Aunt May didn\u2019t raise him that way. Then there\u2019s this bit on the 3rd splash page:
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Yeah, see, they decided that Ben refusing to let Venom go would show you he\u2019s a better person than Peter. Ugh. Page 4? Splash page. This is really over the top. Ben throws Venom into an elecronic billboard, zapping him a bit and saying he\u2019s gonna put Venom away for good \u201cor die trying.\u201d Go for it, buddy! We cut away to JJJ telling a late working Ken Ellis not to let the story consume him, to which Ellis responds, \u201cYeah\u2026 RIGHT!\u201d Very professional. Then it\u2019s back to the fight.
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Huh. If I ever considered this, I\u2019ve forgotten about it. Venom famously doesn\u2019t set off Spider-Man\u2019s danger sense because they used to be bonded. But Ben doesn\u2019t have that past, so he\u2019s warned when Venom attacks. That\u2019s actually a nice little bit. Ben buys himself some time by cocooning Venom in his impact webbing, a whole bunch of it. Then there\u2019s yet another splash page as we cut to The Grim Hunter.
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Place yer bets on that one. Back at the fight, Ben just kinda waits for Venom to break out, taking the chance to recover a little, thinking he still can\u2019t believe Peter would make a deal with such a monster. In the web, Venom internal monologues that Ben is trying to make him out to be the villain, like they all do, so he\u2019s gotta kill him (Seems kinda villain-y to me!). Then there\u2019s this:
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JACOB RAVEN. Haha, ok. Back at the fight, Venom tears loose, and then he tackles Ben off the roof in yet another splash page. Aggressively 90s. Then there\u2019s yet another cutaway to some new players\u2026
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Who is that? I have no memory of this. Back to the fight yet again, and as it goes on, Kaine (A mystery man who is obviously Kaine) watches from a rooftop, hoping Ben will lose. Instead, though, he shoots his impact webbing into Venom\u2019s mouth.
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Uuuhhh\u2026 Where did he read how Venom\u2019s costume works? How does shooting it into the weird mouth the symbiote manifests put it \u201cbetween the costume and the man within?\u201d And I forgot all about the \u201cstinger,\u201d which shoots out of the same place as the impact webbing. How\u2019s he choosing which comes out? Telekinesis? And then what? It gave Eddie a little tap on the forehead? It\u2019s like Tarantula\u2019s boot spikes, only a lil\u2019 tap. Ben starts wailing on Venom as Kaine narrates that he was always the lucky one.
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So spooky. So mysterious. So dumb. Eddie Brock is down, but the symbiote isn\u2019t, popping up to try to bond with Ben, sensing something familiar about him. But Ben rejects it, and in its weakened state, it falls down, too. Soon, Guardsmen from The Vault are here to cart Eddie & the symbiote away, one of them saying Ben \u201chas succeeded where others failed.\u201d
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Ben sure goes from \u201cI deserve to die!\u201d to \u201cI deserve to live!\u201d pretty often. And now he\u2019s defeated what was considered one of Spider-Man\u2019s most dangerous enemies, establishing his bona fides. I don\u2019t remember mullet guy up there. I do know the deal with \u201cDetective RAVEN.\u201d We\u2019ll see it all soon enough. First, let\u2019s go check in on our dying star in TAC.
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